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[-] traveler@lemdro.id 42 points 2 years ago

Jesus just stop using Google. I registered my own domains (in plural yes) and nowadays I’m using them with iCloud, but I could easily change my entire emails from provider with a simple dns change.

For browser I advise using Firefox, but if you don’t like its performance Brave it’s also a good choice. (Though both have some shit going on behind curtains still far better than Google).

For password management just use either Bitwarden, Proton Pass or 1Password. It’s easy not to use Google to store your data, there’s a lot of competitors for what they do.

[-] martreides@beehaw.org 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don't use Brave, it is a mess and sketchy as hell. They have been selling copyrighted material and even injected their own affiliate link when users browsed to Binance.

I do agree with the other parts! It is not that difficult to move away from Google!

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago

They have been selling copyrighted material

Source? I don't use it just curious.

[-] Nobsi@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago
[-] traveler@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago

I didn't ask YOU for anything, and I'm not opening your shitty link.

[-] Nobsi@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

You asked for a source, on a forum.
If you ask for a source, you get a source.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago
[-] traveler@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago

I took a look at that article. You don't use a browser because it:

  • Runs ads to support the company
  • Disagree with the co-found point of views, worse, that they made a 1000$ donation to something he believed in?

A company like Brave is composed of a lot of people with different views. Being able to live in society and accepting each others views it's what makes democracy ... democracy.

Don't see any valid point to not use Brave in the article provided.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

No, it's perfectly good and healthy to utterly and completely deplatform and disenfranchise homophobes.

different views

The opinion that LGBT+ people shouldn't have rights is not a valid opinion, and it's dismissive to simply categorize it as a "different view." Democracy means we have the choice to reject anyone who espouses such an anti-human worldview, and it is categorically and objectively good to do so.

Good to know you don't give a fuck about LGBT+ people enough not to use a shitty chromium browser, though. Blocked.

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

Being toxic af while I didn't even ask him for any source at all.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, fair. That was uncalled for. "Just search it yourself" never sits right with me, either.

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Tells me to search for myself, then provides a link with some Chromium bullshit to scroll to the targeted text while crying about not using Brave.

Would be better off not commenting anything at all.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

True. The article I linked doesn't have any of that, though, and really highlights the reasons I wouldn't come near Brave with a ten-foot pole.

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Compared to Google, Brave as a company is a pretty trustable company. For what I've hear about Mozilla in multiple sources, there's really not a "good" browser maker company so I just stay with the non-worst.

Again, the co-founder views doesn't affect my browser decision at all, the company's actions do.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Fuck off, and stop replying to me.

[-] solivine@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 years ago

Brave is built on chromium...

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 7 points 2 years ago

Modified with loads of privacy features. Just putting the suggestion out there since some people have trouble with Firefox in some sites.

[-] maeries@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago

Still gives google a lot of power to decide how the web will function in the future. That some websites don't work in Firefox is a symptom of exactly that problem

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago

I never understood why these browsers never choose Firefox as a base to their new browsers... Technically you should be able no?

[-] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's something about how the Gecko engine is built IIRC. I don't get all the details but TLDR Chromium is a lot easier to abstract into other programs as a plugin and engine and Gecko is harder.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

"Some sites give people trouble with Firefox" is more like it. Spoof the user-agent header, and those sites that "work better with Chrome" suddenly work just fine.

[-] sip@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

the trouble isn't with Firefox, it's with those sites and the developers of that site that can't be botheted to do it properly and cross-browser - it's still a thing and a sane requirement.

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

I mean with Safari I can understand since Apple can’t be bothered to make a decent engine with all the web standards. But Firefox has all of that so they’re just plain retarded.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

how did you register them genuinely asking.

i would also recommend keepass

[-] traveler@lemdro.id 6 points 2 years ago

I use my own domains for email. So basically I can just use whatever mail service that supports custom domains. iCloud Plus, Proton Mail and Tutanota all support it. If I'm done with iCloud I can just switch away from it by changing DNS settings...

Yeah I also use KeePass.

[-] GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

It's as simple as buying them (mind you that it's a yearly payment) on a domain platform such as Namecheap or Porkbun.

Then using them requires some setup depending on what you use. I use mine with Protonmail + SimpleLogin and they have a good guide on how to set it up.

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